Schapelle corby: An Introduction

This introduces people to the tragic story of Schapelle Corby, an Australian tourist who travelled to Bali, Indonesia with family and friends only to discover that someone had placed 9 pounds of marijuana into her luggage. She was convicted to spend twenty years in an Indonesian prison where life expectancy is no more than ten years. However, the evidence that supported her innocence was suppressed and it soon became clear that this was a political trial with global implications. A must read for anyone interested in the falling status of Western democracy.


Corby and the Bali Police

This looks at what occurred before Schapelle's trial and at the vital evidence that the Bali Police stopped from being presented before the court. By preventing all measurable evidence from reaching the court, including any analysis of the incriminating evidence itself, the Police and not the judges determined the outcome of Schapelle's trial. It proves conclusively that the Bali Police had prior knowledge of the marijuana. It also looks at Schapelle's defence and concludes that the Indonesian government had complete control of her lawyers. It is not so much that she didn't get a fair trial but that she didn't really get a trial at all.




The Corby Case Part 1

This examines the Australian government's reaction to the charges against Schapelle. It looks at the disappearance of the CCTV footage in every airport Schapelle travelled through. It asks why Australia accepted international embarrassment for becoming a drug exporting nation without demanding that Indonesia test the drugs for their country of origin. It looks at why our government would refuse to investigate a woman and reveal her guilt if she took a commercial quantity of marijuana to Indonesia, damaged our reputation, refused to admit guilt and created division within our community and the suspicion of corruption within our government.


The Corby Case Part 2

This examines the court case itself and the role Schapelle's lawyers played in her conviction. It explains that marijuana is not transported around Australia by air and that a simple examination of our government's arrest and siezure records for Australian airports would have confirmed that. And yet, in spite of Australia's top cop saying that such a scenario was highly unlikely her lawyers pressed on with the same defence in both trials that the true culprit could only be an Australian. This was so that no one would look too closely at what occurred at Ngurah Rai Airport.


The Truth About Aussie Gold

In May of 2005 Mathew Moore wrote an article that claimed there was a market in Bali for Australian marijuana. Moore's article argues that Australian drug users in Bali feel more secure buying drugs from Western dealers because the Indonesian dealers are often working for the police. In fact, he says, that there is so much Australian marijuana in Bali it has the trade name, "Aussie Gold". Moore avoids the obvious. Western drug dealers stealing customers from Indonesian police-backed dealers wouldn't last five minutes. And, in spite of the fact that his claims allowed Schapelle's guilt to be a possibility, it was never reviewed, critiqued, or even questioned by the media - until now.


Corby and the SA Drug Dealer: Photos revealed

Hundreds of supporters have visited Schapelle in the visitor's area of Kerobokan Prison and many have posed for photos with her. One of these visitors was arrested in Australia for drug offences months after his return from Bali. Police found photos of him, Schapelle, and Schapelle's mother displayed on his mantlepiece and someone leaked the story to the press that photographic proof existed of Schapelle's involvement with drugs prior to her arrest. The press claimed they were not taken in a prison setting which meant Schapelle had assosciated with drug offenders prior to her arrest. In response, Schapelle's mother asked to see the photos so that she could identify when and where they were taken. However, this is when the real scandal occurred. Both the South Australian and the federal police gave information to the media supporting the myth that the photos were proof of Schapelle's prior connection to drugs while denying Schapelle's mother the right to see and identify them. Australia would have believed that Schapelle was indeed guilty had it not been for the second set of prints.


A Truth Behind the Lies

Jodie Powers was once a friend of Schapelle's sister, Mercedes. For two years, while the rest of the family's friends stayed away from the public eye, Jodie Powers can be seen in one media shot after another basking in the limelight of this media event. In spite of the media harrassment none of their friends spoke publicly until Mercedes and Jodie had a falling out. Then after a huge payout from TVW Channel 7, Jodie told Australia that the Corbys were the 'marijuana mafia'. She said that marijuana was laying all around their Queensland home, a duplex, and that they regularly took it to Indonesia. Not only that but the Corbys also had an Indonesian customs officer on their payroll. After being everywhere the Corbys went, Jodie was cashing in but still no police force found cause to investigate.


Death For Sale

Schapelle was facing the death penalty and Indonesian government backed anti-narcotics groups were demanding she pay with her life before her guilt or innocence was even determined. On the 8th of April 2005 the then Justice Minister, Chris ellison announced that he had just had a telephone conversation with Indonesia's Attorney General, Abdurrahman Saleh who agreed not to seek a death sentence because "Australians are opposed to the death penalty". What the Australian people were not aware of then was that a group of Australians, known as the Bali 9 had been under our federal police surveillance for weeks because they planned to go to Bali, buy heroin and return to Australia as drug mules. The Australian government informed the Indonesians of the Bali 9's intentions two weeks before they left Australia. On the 8th of April 2005, the day Saleh agreed not to seek the death penalty for Schapelle was the same day that the last of the Bali 9 arrived in Indonesia to go under Indonesian Police surveillance for death penalty offences.

She Shoulda Felt the Weight!

When Schapelle was first arrested the evidence for her innocence was so overwhelming that 95% of the nation polled belief in her. However, as the case progressed, this changed. No new supported evidence came to light and the reasons stated for this change of heart were downright silly. While all testimony stated that Schapelle's brother dragged Schapelle's bodyboard bag along with his own luggage from the carousel because Schapelle was already overladen, detractors still insisted that she should have felt the extra weight. When this was explained to them, they grasped at another unsupported myth. It became very clear that the reasons they were giving were mere excuses to justify a belief they already had. Since Schapelle appeared so innocent and the media were attacking her the fact that our government abandonned her must mean that they knew something they were not sharing with the people.


"If the world could unite to save this one innocent woman it would be a positive step to saving ourselves."